By Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Translator App

Microsoft Translator is a free, personal translation app for 60+ languages, to translate text, voice, conversations, camera photos and screenshots. You can even download languages for offline translation for free to use when you travel!
• Text translation into over 60 languages*, for online and offline use
• Camera translation to translate text within photos and screenshots
• Voice translation to translate speech, and a split-screen mode for two participants having a bilingual conversation
• Multi-person conversation translation - connect your devices and have in-person conversations with up to 100 people across multiple languages
• Phrasebooks for verified translations and pronunciation guides to help you learn important phrases in foreign languages when you travel
• Look up alternate translations and meanings of a word to find the best translation to express yourself
• Download languages for offline use for when you travel without an internet connection
• Hear your translated phrase out loud to help you learn how to say the translation
• View transliterations (pronunciation guides) to help you pronounce the translation (includes Pinyin support for Chinese)
• Share your translations with other apps
• Pin and save your most frequent translations for later
• Translate websites on Safari using the Microsoft Translator browser extension
• Speak to your Apple watch to get an instant translation
• Automatically sync translations between your phone and Apple watch
Translator supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bangla, Bosnian (Latin), Bulgarian, Cantonese (Traditional), Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Quer'etaro Otomi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tahitian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Yucatec Maya.
Microsoft Translator is powered by cutting-edge technology used by Office, Bing, Skype, Internet Explorer as well as by partners such as Twitter, Yelp, eBay, WeChat and more.
*Some features are not available in all languages.
// Request for User Permissions //
[Mandatory access]
1. View Network access
To detect whether the device is on Wi-Fi, mobile data, or not connected to a network. This helps the app know whether it should translate while online, or use an offline language pack.
2. Network access
For access to Wi-Fi or mobile data to perform text or speech translations, and download offline language packs.
[Optional access]
1. Camera
To take pictures for image translations, and to scan QR codes when joining a conversation.
2. Microphone
To translate speech.
3. Photos/Media/Files
To open photos from the device for image translation.
4. Storage
To open photos from the device for image translation, and to save downloaded offline language packs.

Microsoft Translator app screenshots

Microsoft Translator app reviews

Excellent 5/5

By BroadwayLew

Helps when you travel the world

Awesome app handy in the 5/5

By Gajafferi

This app is amazing this is help me out so many times in the emergency department where I’ve had an opportunity to treat patients from all over the world as my hospital is located near an international airport it’s like having a personal translator with me all the time

Gamers perfect friend 5/5

By jc aka ichigo1217

It’s been a awesome tool for me as a gamer , especially when your dealing with games where you find yourself interacting with lots of people from different countries and languages.
I’ll recommend it for all , it’s easy, reliable even with lingos and FREE! What more can you ask for .5⭐️ for sure 😎👍🏻

language selection menu isn't displayed 3/5

Great Translation App 5/5

By Memnoch5150

I live in So Cal, so I see all walks of life especially in my line of work.
Money is money and no one likes to lose a client, and luckily Microsoft’s Translator has save my ____ time and time again with Arabic, Urdu and Chinese clients alike.

Microsoft Translator 5/5

By Filoti4

GREAT TRANSLATOR!!!!
Works better than ALL the other translators I have used!!!!!
Good Job!!’

Love this app! 5/5

By Floral genius

It’s so easy to use! I love it!

What happened to Icelandic? 5/5

By Sweetiepug

Generally very good but what happened to Icelandic.

Isy 5/5

By Nolito text 77

Very Good tool

Horrible for Eng to Polish 1/5

By crinkster54

Maybe translating into Polish isn’t the highest priority for translators, especially this one but I downloaded it to help me communicate with a friend who is a recent immigrant. She speaks English decently but I thought it would be nice to meet her somewhere in the middle to make her feel more welcome and comfortable. There wasn’t a single translation that was close to accurate. In fact, I had her simply say “hello.” She was so embarrassed with what came up she whispered to me that it translated to “bra.” Google translate is just as bad. I’ll try iTranslate again but don’t have high hopes.
I did research on my laptop for the best translators and this one came in 2nd behind Google. So very disappointed!

Translate app number 1 5/5

By Walah1

Translate app number 1

Translation 5/5

By dave-drew

So convenient!

The Absolute Best Translation App 5/5

By CC954

I’ve tried quite a few translation apps over the years and this is hands-down the best. The translation of words, like for a menu, by using the camera is AWESOME. Translation for typed in words or phrases, talk, and handy Message app is all integrated as well. The best translation app you’ll ever download!

Reviewwwww 🤣 4/5

By TargetQueen👸🏽👑

So, I don’t like how I have to download the languages before using them offline. And that is it! Thanks so much 😁

微软翻译太棒了。 5/5

By dabalang

微软翻译太棒了，令我吃惊。我英语不好，微软给了我支持和沟通的能力。太喜欢了。谢谢！

Good day 5/5

By ezedeen

Thank you a lot for all your nice efforts that help different peoples from different nationalities to communicates and understands each other’s.

Great app! 5/5

By I like Cash

Used it in Japan and was amazed how well it worked. The translation is accurate and the app is simple to use.

good 5/5

By johnnyb34443

good app.

تقيم 5/5

By أم مهند الحربي

برنامج جداً رائع 👍🏻👍🏻

Sometimes not clear Chinese 3/5

By babydoll. 7777

Sometimes not to clear to Chinese

MS Translator 1/5

By Joelamos

WHAT ON EARTH!!!.......I copied aSpanish text I knew the translation for. Had MS Translate it to English.....know what happened????????
It copied the text word for word....NOT EVEN TRANSLATING IT..
NICE JOB MICROSOFT.......THATS VERY DISAPPOINTING....

Great! 5/5

Learning Italian 5/5

By LeftySulis

A blessing to use

Frustrating to use (at best) 1/5

By Notapaidreviewer

I need to translate conversations and text from various apps l use. We all know that iOS copy and paste can be quite frustrating to use. Well, the "academics" at Microsoft aren't aware of this. They are in denial when one tells them you often can't copy and/or paste text from the translation app to another. All they do is send a candid response: long press the word after highlighting. Well, they don't understand. This works rarely, especially if you have many words or sentences. Btw. I'm using the XS Max.
The developers REFUSE to add a copy and paste button like the other widely used app. In fact, any decent translation app has a button for this. Yet, Microsoft doesn't. I feel this is likely because of they prefer the other OS, Android where the app works well. As such, I don't recommend this app and I have it uninstalled.

Better Than Google Translate 5/5

By Delaware Teacher

I love this app and recommend it to everyone who needs to communicate with friends in other languages!

Best Backup Support for foreigners. 5/5

By pdebijl

I am a Dutch citizen and have lived in California for over 40 years.
Sometimes the Dutch word escapes me and thanks for the translator I have a chance to retrieve it quickly.

Works great 4/5

By BobinHell

Love the ability to download languages onto my device. Translations are accurate (and at least not embarrassing).
Wish there was a Hawai’ian language though.

Great app however. 4/5

By FaZe FZG

This is a great app to use however, the camera translation quality does it by words so it isn't really that accurate so I hope you can improve the camera translation quality. Thanks

It does not translate everything 2/5

By go bruin bear

It does not translate everything when i use the camera.It also does strange translations.:=(

Use it 5/5

By yoyoyote

I use all the time while learning Spanish.

Effective 5/5

By MaeMaeB

Does the job especially for those in China due to the need of a Vpn to use google translator; this one don’t need Vpn so it’s more convenient to use on a daily basis

Works inside of China 3/5

By stephen•ph

But the UI designers left off so many opportunities for good functionality. Was there a UI designer?
Improvements:
Long press copies the result
Don’t make the user swipe so switch from Chinese characters and pinyin—show both.

Awesome 5/5

By 7 is a prime number

This is the best language translator. (Period - end of discussion)

Great app 5/5

By yrbdh

Really the best one I’ve found that even works good without WiFi

Spyware❓❗️❓ 1/5

By schoowa

The “share app diagnostics” setting is reactivated every time the app is updated. As per usual, Microsoft has absolutely no respect for user privacy!

Chinese pinyin 3/5

By ShaiTrak

Doesn’t work. That should be easy from characters to pinyin option. Would be great to have that fixed. Google does it perfectly. Unfortunately living in cn. That doesn’t work lol ~ so yeah

Translator by Microsoft 5/5

By stick rhythms

Best translator program I have ever used!

Educational value 5/5

By Thinktankbill

I work in a school system with 70 different languages spoken in 60% of our students homes. This tool is transforming how we can communicate more effectively with both student and parents-it’s a game changer for us!

Garbage 1/5

By Emessiha

I thought there’s supposed to be a levantine function to the app but there is not. Might as well stick with google translate.

Great translator!! 5/5

By lewsann

I use this app to study Spanish, especially pronunciation and idioms. I speak Spanish into the microphone and if the app can’t understand me, I repeat the phrase in English to hear how the app would say it. And last December I used the translator in Miami to find an Italian restaurant that served a particular dish. Terrific app.

So far so good 5/5

By jansalee

The good thing about this app is that you hear the proper way to pronounce foreign words you requested and learn to speak the right way

Translate 5/5

By Kathieww

Love it

Just Two Fixes 5/5

By DeeHeath

Can you Please Make Conversations Go On.
I’m From USA And I Really Want To Know.
The Codes Other People Can Use!
But Wait !
Call Them Group Chats!
You Can Use Old Codes!
And Another Thing!
Please And I Mean Please!
Let All Of The Languages Come In The Microsoft Translator!
If You Do This I’ll Be Thankful!

Share Button 3/5

By Bassem's Review

WheneverI am using different apps and when I try to Translate a word via share button, the app widget doesn’t work properly, I can’t pickup the languages.

Better version of google translate 5/5

By tc97oo gaming

App is so much nicer especially the camera feature. That was one of my favorite things in google translate but it was very hard to use and snap does it so much better and I can actually count on it!

Don’t download 1/5

By ap_deanna

This is the worst app ever. Don’t waste your time down loading it. It’s a piece of junk